Kensuke Ushio

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Kensuke Ushio
Native name 牛尾憲輔
Birth name Kensuke Ushio
Also known as Agraph
Born (1983-03-01) March 1, 1983 (age 41)
Tokyo, Japan
Genres
Occupation(s)
Years active 2007–present
Labels
Website www.agraph.jp

Kensuke Ushio (Japanese: 牛尾憲輔 Hepburn: Ushio Kensuke?, born March 1, 1983) is a Japanese composer, rock and EBM musician who performs under the moniker Agraph.

He is a member of Japanese rock band Lama. Together with Lama, he released two full-length studio records: New! in 2011 and Modanica a year later. Both albums charted on the Japanese Albums Chart.[1]

As an EBM musician, he released three albums, all of which peaked in the Japanese Albums Chart.[2] He wrote and composed soundtracks for several anime television series and movies, such as A Silent Voice, Chainsaw Man, Devilman Crybaby and Liz and the Blue Bird.[3]

Biography

As a child, Ushio learned playing piano. He studied arts and music at university. At the same time, he learned the usage of the audio editor software Pro Tools. At the age of 20, Ushio got his first contact with electronic music, such as techno.[4] He started his solo career in 2007 under the moniker Agraph and began creating electronic music. His debut album A Day, Phases, which was produced by Takkyu Ishino, was released in December 2008.[4] Two years later, his second album Equal was released, which ranked in the Japanese Albums Charts.[2] In 2011, Ushio and some former musicians of bands like Supercar and Number Girl formed a rock band called Lama.[5][6] The band released two albums, which both ranked on the official Albums Charts of Japan.[1]

Due to his involvement in Lama, Ushio's third album named The Shader was released in 2016, six years after his second album. Ushio works as composer of film music as well, with a particular focus on animated projects. Among his film and television credits are music composition for Space Dandy (2014), A Silent Voice (2016), Liz and the Blue Bird (2018), and Boogiepop and Others (2019).[7][8] He is a frequent collaborator of directors Masaaki Yuasa and Naoko Yamada, as well as the animation studio Science Saru, for which he has composed the scores of Ping Pong the Animation (2014), Devilman Crybaby (2018), Japan Sinks: 2020 (2020), and The Heike Story (2021).[9][10] In December 2021, Ushio was confirmed as the composer for MAPPA's anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga series Chainsaw Man,[11] which premiered on October 12, 2022, on TV Tokyo and other networks.[12][13] He also arranged music for the Distant Future chapter of the Live a Live remake, originally composed by Yoko Shimomura, which released on July 22, 2022.[14]

Discography

Solo

Year Album
2008 A Day, Phase[15]
2010 Equal
2016 The Shader[16]

LAMA

Year Album
2011 Now
2012 Modanica[17]

Works

Anime

Year Title
2014 Space Dandy
Ping Pong the Animation
2016 A Silent Voice[18] (A Shape of Light)
2018 Sanī/32
Devilman Crybaby[19]
Liz and the Blue Bird[20]
2019 Boogiepop and Others[21]
2020 Japan Sinks: 2020
2021 Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop
The Heike Story[22]
2022 Chainsaw Man[23]
2023 Make My Day[24]
The Dangers in My Heart[25]
Heavenly Delusion[26]
2024 Kimi no Iro[27]

Video games

Year Title Notes
2022 Live a Live arranged "Unseen Syndrome" and "Captain of the Stars"[14]

References

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